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  • Few Gather To Remember At Saddam's Tomb (On 1st Anniversary Of Execution, Iraqis...Yawn)

    12/30/2007 9:18:00 AM PST · by DogByte6RER · 25 replies · 274+ views
    Telegraph.co.uk ^ | 30/12/2007 | Akeel Hussein in Tikrit and Colin Freeman
    Few gather to remember at Saddam's tomb By Akeel Hussein in Tikrit and Colin Freeman Last Updated: 2:21am GMT 30/12/2007 Tucked away amid lush orange farms outside the city of Tikrit, there is a small corner of Iraq where Saddam Hussein is still thought of as the president. The former Iraqi leader might have been hanged a year ago today, but in his ancestral village of al-Owja, where pilgrims now come to his grave, Tikrit's most famous son is still spoken of in the same awed tones as when he was alive. "Many people have visited the president in the...